Manager, Digital Transformation - Manufacturing Quality

Vision, Design, and Deployment of Quality Processes Provide leadership in setting the vision, as well as designing, developing, and deploying critical quality processes for the Quality workstream. Ensure these processes support organizational goals and drive continuous improvement across the business. Promote a quality-first and no-fault-forward mindset throughout the business. Drive the implementation of an end-to-end quality management system (QMS) and effective change management through employees, enhanced processes, and integrated systems. Act as the quality champion within the Plan to Fulfill workstream and its sub-groups. Collaborate with stakeholders to capture and define quality requirements, ensuring that benchmark processes are delivered to support the organization's transformation efforts. Engage proactively with key stakeholders to understand and prioritize business requirements. Plan and execute solutions that address these priorities, ensuring alignment with the broader objectives of the program and workstream. Demonstrate agility in shifting focus between strategy, planning, and execution throughout different phases of the project. Maintain flexibility to ensure successful delivery of program and workstream objectives. Lead as a cultural change agent by involving, engaging, and influencing stakeholders. Promote open communication, guide stakeholders through the change journey, and empower them to act as change agents throughout the organization. Bachelor's degree or equivalent with 6-8 years of management experience. An advanced degree preferred. Bachelor's Degree in Business, Computer Science, Math, Statistics, or related field. MBA or master's preferred but not required. Proven experience in operations consulting, strong knowledge of operational processes, systems and tools, and improvement initiatives including experience in process digitalization and digital transformation in leading/fast growth companies. Experience in market analytics for new tools and process improvements for complex, high growth companies. Storyteller with an ability to drive organizational change management. Consistently shows exponential thinking and incremental execution. Understanding of best practices in the industry and application to real life. Proficient knowledge of the systems implementation and development life cycles. Hands on operational experience in manufacturing. Expereince in Semiconductor equipment manufacturing or heavy equipment is a plus. Quality Certifications such as Auditor for ISO 9001 2015 / IATF 16949, CQE, Six-Sigma Black Belt a plus 8+ years of experience in quality with working experience on critical quality tools like Pareto Analysis, Root Cause Analysis, Statistical Process Control, FMEA, etc. Experience driving process improvement is a plus